Howard Hughes and the Ghost of Better Times

[greygirlbeast]

Yesterday, Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press passed along the news that the limited edition of The Ammonite Violin & Others has sold out. There are still copies of the trade hardcover, for now. But I expect the book to sell out prior to publication, so you might want to preorder. My thanks to all who have preordered so far. I'm very excited about

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[martianmooncrab]

The Maltese Unicorn

that sounds fabulous, deadly whimsical even..

[greygirlbeast]

that sounds fabulous, deadly whimsical even...

I think the trick is to render the absurdity poetic by playing it straight as I can.

[martianmooncrab]

we expect the dark underbelly to be just that, its the supposedly normal parts of life, when they go wrong that scare us the most.

[sovay]

By six p.m. or so, it had blossomed into a full-fledged, slightly tongue-in-cheek story involving the aphrodisiac qualities that might be derived from a unicorn's horn, two rival demon brothel's in 1940s Manhattan, an unscrupulous dealer in occult antiquities named Nathaniel Adler (wink, wink), and...well, lots of other stuff.

Awesome.

[greygirlbeast]

Awesome.

Unless I break it.

[sovay]

Unless I break it.

I don't think you can break demon brothels.

[greygirlbeast]

I don't think you can break demon brothels.

True. I expect it works the other way round.

[greygirlbeast]

Had a friend who went to Disneyland on acid and never quite recovered.

Ouch. I can imagine...

[unknownbinaries]

Instead, I was encouraged to have a go at it.

Oh, brilliant. By the time I read that sequence of comments, I didn't want to be pushy, but absolutely loved the direction it was headed. Now, I can't wait.

[greygirlbeast]

By the time I read that sequence of comments, I didn't want to be pushy,

Pushy is so unpredictable. It may earn you undying gratitude, or get your head bitten off, and there's no way to tell beforehand.

[unknownbinaries]

Pushy is something I never want to feel I am being, because it annoys the everloving crap out of me when I'm on the receiving end.

[greygirlbeast]

Pushy is something I never want to feel I am being, because it annoys the everloving crap out of me when I'm on the receiving end.

I do my best to avoid being pushy, but I am sometimes, nonetheless. Or so says Spooky.

[tsarina]

I am shamefully excited about the Maltese Unicorn, myself. Demon brothels!

[greygirlbeast]

Demon brothels!

The possibilities are, well...